Department of Geosciences
North Dakota State UniversityGEOLOGY 428/628:
GEOCHEMISTRY

Welcome to the homepage for Geochemistry 428/628 at North Dakota State University!Web-phreeeq, a web-accessible interface which allows you to model aqueous speciation using PHREEQC is available here (see below).

This course is being taught Fall Semester, 2016.

Who should take this course:

anyone interested in environmental science

geology juniors or seniors interested in ground water or environmental geology;

soil science seniors and graduate students;

chemistry juniors or seniors interested in analytical or environmental chemistry; chemistry graduate students with inorganic or analytical program emphasis;

civil engineering seniors or graduate students with a sanitary engineering emphasis;
biology/zoology seniors/ grad students interested in environmental science careers

Course content:

review of solubility, acid/base and electrochemical concepts;

aqueous geochemistry and solid-water interactions with an emphasis on ground water;

chemical weathering;

mineral thermodynamics and redox (Eh-pH) diagrams and their applications to soil and mineral stability and ground water chemistry;